The author and director of the Scivias Institute has drafted it at first during the International Conference 2012 for a pilgrimage to the Disibodenberg where Hildegard had lived for almoste 40 years of her life. Based on primary sources and new discoveries - especially since the translation from Latin of the vita of Hildegard's teacher Jutta of Sponheim - this is a new account.
In this article, Annette Esser - German translator of Barbara Newman's groundbreaking Hildegard Book Sister of Wisdom - tells us the life of Saint Hildegard in seven stations. Biblical texts and meditative poems are included to offer you additional inspiration, furthering the potential for your own spiritual discoveries in the company of Hildegard.Īnnette Esser: The Life of Saint Hildegard It also provides profound information about Hildegard’s life and her theological, musical, medical, and botanical works. The Hildegard of Bingen Pilgrimage Book directs you along the way, offering short descriptions of each of the ten stages. It is a path through a fascinating Central European landscape, into Hildegard’s visionary work, into one’s own spirituality, and into God. Hildegard’s Abbey in Eibingen on the Rhine. The route leads pilgrims on 140 kilometers (87 miles) from Idar-Oberstein via Disibodenberg and Sponheim to St. The Hildegard of Bingen Pilgrimage Way is a new path that invites pilgrims from all over the world to walk along the historic sites where the saint lived in the twelfth century. Hildegard's Abbey, where her Benedictine sisters live till today. The latter leads to the Pilrgrimage Church with the Hildegard-Shrine ("Wallfahrtskirche") and to St. In Bingerbrück, the pilgrimage trail connetcs to the Bingen and the Rüdesheim Trail on the opposite side of the Rhine. From there, the trail reaches the Rupertsberg in Bingerbrück, where Hildegard founded her own women Monastery, where she moved with 19 sisters in 1150. Along an old path of Marian Pilgrimage places ("Madonna of the Soonwald") and through the beatiful Bingen Forest the majestic Rhine Valley opens up for view. It continues to the ruins of Böckelheim and Sponheim Castle, where Hildegard might have got an education with her teacher Lady Jutta of Sponheim (1106-1112).Then the 12 century old Cloister Church of Sponheim with a Hildegarden and a lybyrinth in front are a real highlight of the Pigrimage. Past the barefoot path of Bad Sobernheim, the Hildegard Way reaches the historic ruin site of Disibodenberg where Hildegard had lived for about 40 years of her life (1112-1150). It starts in Idar-Oberstein, the famous city of gems (Hildegrds described their heailing effect) and continues past the Medieval town of Herrstein past Niederhosenbach, the family seat and possible birthplace of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179). The Hildegard Way ("Hildegard von Bingen Pilgerwanderweg") is a 137-kilometer long pilgrimage trail. The Hildegard Way - A new Pilgrimage Trail Opening of the Hildegard Way on Septmber 9, 2017
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